Tensions & Secession
This act, which prohibited anyone from helping fugitive enslaved peoples to help escape enslavement, helped to further the divide between the North and the South
The Fugitive Slave Act (part of the Compromise of 1850)
Union soldiers attempted to burn cotton and were defeated by Colonel Santos Benavides and Tejano troops.
Battle of Laredo
Texas needed to keep ____________ from rebelling and joining the Union army.
Slaves/Enslaved People
This important historical proclamation could not be enforced until after the northern states (union) defeated the southern states (confederacy). It said that all slaves in the confederacy were free.
Emancipation Proclamation
This principle, shared by the Texas and U.S. Constitutions, is defined as:
The division of authority between separate levels of government
Federalism
Which amendment to the US constitution is listed below?
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. It abolished slavery
13 Amendment
This is the name for a southerner during the civil war who remained loyal to the united states (The North).
Unionist
This was the first battle of the civil war.
Battle of Fort Sumter
Texas needed its own ______________ because the Confederacy didn't have a currency of its own.
money
This bureau was created to provide employment, legal aid, and assistance to freed peoples, and would be in operation in Texas from September 1865 - July 1870
The Freedmen’s Bureau
This principle, shared by the Texas and U.S. Constitutions, is defined as:
Political power is derived from the consent of the people to be governed
Popular Sovereignty
Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the __________ granted African American men the right to vote.
15th amendment
Because of the compromise of 1850, _____________ was admitted as a free state and the rest of the Mexican Seccion was decided by popular sovereignty.
California
This battle occurred on January 1st, 1863, and resulted in the Confederate re-capture of an important port (the only major port the Confederacy would hold by the end of the war)
Battle of Galveston
Because so many men were drafted into the war __________ had to take over their duties.
Women
Provisions that restricted where African Americans could live, what jobs they could have, and even who they could marry were known as these types of "codes"
Black Codes
This principle, shared by the Texas and U.S. Constitutions, is defined as:
That the individual, co-equal branches of the government have ways to hold each other accountable
Checks and Balances
This group, which was formed during the reconstruction era, wore white hoods and cloaks while performing acts of terrorism against African Americans.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
This Texan was NOT a supporter of the secession of Texas from the Union… so much so that he refused to take an oath to the Confederacy after secession passed & was therefore removed from office
Sam Houston
General Sibley attacked New Mexico and captured Albuquerque and Santa Fe
Battle West of the Mississippi
President Jefferson Davis authorized the___________ Act on April 16, 1862. This legislation required all white males aged eighteen to thirty-five to serve three years of Confederate service if called.
Conscription
Texas had to rewrite its _____________ to be readmitted into the United States.
constitution.
This principle, shared by the Texas and U.S. Constitutions, is defined as:
A system in which voters elect representatives to represent their wishes in government
Republicanism
This amendment said that all formally enslaved people were now citizens because they were born in the united states.
14th
The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
Secession
This battle– the last one to be fought in Texas, and considered by most historians to be the last of the Civil War– was fought in far southern Texas in May 1865
The Battle of Palmito Ranch
Native American attacks ______________ during the civil war in Texas because many soldiers were fighting the east.
increased
On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger took command of Texas and declared the end of slavery. Hint: It is a holiday that we celebrate today.
Juneteenth
This principle, shared by the Texas and U.S. Constitutions, is defined as:
The division of functions in the government between individual, co-equal branches
Separation of Powers
A tenant farmer who pays a portion of each year’s crop as rent to pay for the use of the land is known as a _____
Sharecropper